During your 1 day Lake Mburo tour in Uganda, you will find out that Lake Mburo National Park is the closest National Park to Kampala 240km about 3 - 4 hours’ drive and boasts of counts of biodiversity and amazing scenic landscapes. The park is situated in the traditional range lands of the Bahima pastoralist and has extensive savannah that initially supported count of the Ankole long horned cattle before it was gazetted to support a range of wild grazers including topis, Impala, Burchell’s Zebra, Oribis, Water bucks, Bush bucks, Buffaloes, Elands, Rothschild giraffes, Warthogs among others. The 1 Day excursion to the park is the only adventure wildlife excursion you can have in Uganda if you are to start from Kampala in one day. It involves a thrilling boat cruise on Lake Mburo.

Uganda’s white-water rafting industry is comparatively new – the first drop of the river by a paddler was in 1996, and the grade 4 and 5 extend of rapids on the Nile have since been developed into a world-class rafting destination possessing some of the most prevailing and constant rapids on earth. The powerful volume of water creates horrible rapids that provide an unforgettable rafting experience equivalent to that of the Zambezi River in Zimbabwe. Home of the white-water rafting industry is the city of Jinja, located at the source of the River Nile, the longest river in the world. Bujagali Falls downstream of the Nile’s basis, and close to Jinja, has been vaunted the ‘adrenaline capital’ of Uganda, offering not only white water rafting, but also bungee jumping, kayaking, mountain biking and river boarding.

Traveling to Jinja
Jinja is only 80km from Kampala but allow at least 2 hours (currently there are roadworks that can delay even longer) by road, the slowest section is getting out of Kampala and past Mukono. From there (apart from a stream of slow heavy vehicles) the going is generally much easier and you pass through areas of sugarcane and tea plantations, Mabira Forest and down from Mbiko into the Nile Valley, crossing the River over the Owens Falls and Nalubale Dams. A new bridge is currently being built for completion by 2016.

Spice Tours and Travels is here to organize a 1 day excursions/ Uganda Safaris/Uganda tours that can let you tour Uganda’s best safari destinations in the shortest time possible. These short Uganda safaris are organised in a way that you are able to carry out various Uganda tours in Uganda’s national parks such as gorilla tracking or track the chimps, birding in Uganda, wild game viewing and 1 day executions or tours such as the Kampala tours,Jinja tour and the Namba Island tour .

1 Day Tour to Ngamba Island Chimpanzees or a Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary tour in Uganda takes you on a one day trip to Ngamba Island Chimps on Lake Victoria.

Spice Tours & Travels Ltd organizes these short trips in Uganda to those time bad travelers that don’t have enough time for long safaris in Uganda yet they still want to adventure Uganda`s amazing wildlife, Chimpanzee on Ngamba Island inclusive.

Detailed Itineray of the 1 Day Ngamba Island Chimpazee Santuary tour

Histroy of Entebbe
“Entebbe” in a local language means a “seat” and was probably named that because it was the place where the Buganda chief sat to adjudicate legal cases. It first became a British colonial administrative and commercial centre in 1893 when Sir Gerald Portal, a colonial Commissioner used it as a base, Port Bell went on to become Kampala harbor. Although no ships dock is there now, there is still a wreckage which was used by Lake Victoria ferries.

Kampala is a very lively city both in the day and at night. Kampala is one of the safest places to move in the night. Almost every corner of the street is a club, pub or an entertainment center to enjoy. Blurring music is part of the nights in Kampala-western, Uganda and contemporary music…Ugandans will dance to anything!

WHAT TO SEE:

RELIGIOUS CENTERS

Namugongo Martyr's Shrine
The site was established in remembrance of the massacre that took place on 3rd June 1886 on the orders of the then chaotic Kabaka Mwanga fulfilled by Mukajanga when the martyrs failed to renounce their adopted faith. It is situated about 15 km from Kampala city center along Jinja road.

Attractions at the site include the conical metallic domed style church supported by 22 copper pillars each representing a Martyr and housing a jaw born for Charles Lwanga the then leader of the catholic contingent. The 1000 seat Basilica arranged in a circular form is Closed with wooden doors depicting the history of the martyrs, the grass thatched pavilion supported by 4 (four) pillars on the martyr’s lake island is an ideal place to view the 15 acres compound of the site. Martyrs lake where pilgrims often drawn water believed to healing various diseases and used for blessing.